Dear List Members Lisa Lewis and Michael Jefferson do us a service by reminding us of the appropriateness of dispassionate debate on the Rudyard Kipling list. This prompts me to add a reminder that the basic feature of debate is that it concerns the subject under discussion, and not the discussants. While one may express appreciation of a good point, negative comments of any sort whatever about another discussant should be avoided. Regards to all John Cram Rudyard-Kipling list owner Prof W J Cram Dept of Biological and Nutritional Sciences University of Newcastle Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU, UK Tel: +191 222 7886 Fax: +191 222 8684 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%